Yes it will, writing code is only 10% of the job

I hate how good agents have become, it's like there's no point in learning new things anymore when you can just tell your agent to do it

Yes, but the field is never going to be what it once was and competition will be much fiercer, with workers having vastly reduced individual bargaining power. As far as I know, they still haven't managed a truly agentic AI, and show no signs of being close to bridging that gap, meaning that for the foreseeable future they'll require handlers. They also function at their best when given a narrow focus and a tight scope in which to work. I foresee programmers spending a lot of time polishing AI code and otherwise developing solutions that require genuine innovation.

This is essentially the same process of proletarianization that once hit artisanal manufacturers; a steady process of de-skilling of their trades that made each individual worker interchangeable, impoverishing the vast bulk even as overall productivity soared. People like to throw Luddite as an insult with a connotation of an irrational fear of technology, but are largely unaware of the textile workers whose livelihoods were being crushed by industrial capitalism and the obvious parallels to our current situation.

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Blue Bear 24d

Yes, but the field is never going to be what it once was and competition will be much fiercer, with workers having vastly reduced individual bargaining power. A

Yes, but the field is never going to be what it once was and competition will be much fiercer, with workers having vastly reduced individual bargaining power. As far as I know, they still haven't managed a truly agentic AI, and show no signs of being close to bridging that gap, meaning that for the foreseeable future they'll require handlers. They also function at their best when given a narrow focus and a tight scope in which to work. I foresee programmers spending a lot of time polishing AI code and otherwise developing solutions that require genuine innovation.

This is essentially the same process of proletarianization that once hit artisanal manufacturers; a steady process of de-skilling of their trades that made each individual worker interchangeable, impoverishing the vast bulk even as overall productivity soared. People like to throw Luddite as an insult with a connotation of an irrational fear of technology, but are largely unaware of the textile workers whose livelihoods were being crushed by industrial capitalism and the obvious parallels to our current situation.

Nobody's unaware the industrial revolution killed jobs, they just think it was obviously better for everyone in the long run. It's called concentrated costs and diffuse benefits.

Lime Panda 23d

Nobody's unaware the industrial revolution killed jobs, they just think it was obviously better for everyone in the long run. It's called concentrated c

Nobody's unaware the industrial revolution killed jobs, they just think it was obviously better for everyone in the long run. It's called concentrated costs and diffuse benefits.

My point is that people are generally unaware that the Luddites were an actual labor movement with reasons to be opposed to industrialization other than an irrational fear of technology; their history is something worth learning from given its obvious parallels to today. Industrial capitalism undeniably changed life for the better in many ways, and as such opposition to technologival development is at best foolish, but it also ruined countless lives in the process, and so it is also worth keeping this lesson in mind to take control of this historical process.

Red Wolf 59d

I hate how good agents have become, it's like there's no point in learning new things anymore when you can just tell your agent to do it

I hate how good agents have become, it's like there's no point in learning new things anymore when you can just tell your agent to do it

They can rapidly write code that works but their code is terrible. So far, there's still plenty of work for programmers. In 10 years though... Might be hard.